Wild turkey slams into storefront window

It might be pilot error or suicide, but in this case, the pilot will end up on someone's dinner table.

John Hacker

It might be pilot error or suicide, but in this case, the pilot will end up on someone's dinner table.

Shocked onlookers had to duck as a wild turkey flew low along a busy street and plunged head-first into a plate-glass window.

The Rev. Francisco Bonilla of Hispanic Christian Church was standing with friends and talking in the parking lot nearby when the low-flying bird came by.

"It came from the east," Bonilla said. "We were talking across the street and I noticed something black was flying toward us. It was so low we had to duck as it flew by at probably 18 to 20 miles per hour. It hit the window and split it into a thousand pieces."

The 35-pound gobbler lay dead on the sidewalk as Bonilla and friends worked to put plywood over the shattered window.

Bonilla said the group had not figured out who would get the downed fowl, but someone would eat well in the next couple of days.